Garment-supporting webbing.



UNITED STATE "PATENT FFICE.

C'ELIA A. SPURGIN, OF DES MOINES, IOlVA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING WEBBlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '70 6,464, dated August 5, 1902.

Application filed February 8.1902. Serial No. 93,237. (No model.)

bing or belting, sections of which may be usedin connecting upper and nether garments.

Considerable difficulty is experienced by ladies inkeepiug the skirt from sagging and drawingaway from the belt-line and the waist from pulling up from under the belt, and the point of departure from the belt-line varies in.

dilierent figures. There are skirt-supportin g devices which are intended to be attached to the waist; but such attachments, so farasI know, consist of rigid pieces of metal of con siderable extentflvhich are temporarily inserted in pocketsprovided in a suitable length of material secured to-the waist. Such a construction is objectionable, because in laundering the metallic pieces must be removed, as otherwise they would injure the rollers'of the wringers and would be apt to be so twisted or bent as to tear the goods. mon to attach tothe waist and skirt separate hooks and eyes; but such an arrangement is obj ectionable both because of the great bother of attachment and also 7 because the parts when so'arranged are unhandy of operation.

The object of my present invention, therefore, is to produce as an article of manufacture a webbing of indefinite length, which shall be provided at successive points with a hook-receiving strip of -a form to cooperate with any of the commercial forms of hooks and attached to the webbing in such manner that continued wearwillnot cause the same to pull from the webbing, the webbing being of such character that it may be bought in any desired lengths bythe consumer and attached by stitching along its upper edge to the waist. at or about the belt-line, being applied entirely around the waist or at such points along the belt-line as may be required by the peculiarities of figure of the wearer.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

, Figure 1 is a perspective view of .a short section. of one form of: my webbing, metallic the opposite side of the webbing. It is also com-- hook-receiving stripsbeiug arranged in a sire: gle series on the webbingi Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified forni provided with two series of alteruately-arranged strips. Fig. 3 illustrates a roll of the webbing shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4- illustrates the manner of final use of my device. Fig. 5 'is a perspective view of a preferred form of metallic hook-receiving strip. Fig. 6 is a plan showing the manner .at its ends to the webbing in" such manner that the webbing between the ends is left free, so that the point of a'liook may be inserted between the webbing and strip, as

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Anysuitable means may be used to attachthe strips 8 to the webbing; In Fig.5 lshow the strip 8 provided with a pair of integral fingers 9 and 10 at eachend. Each finger may be folded upon the dotted lines shown in Fig. 5, passed through the webbing,and then clenched upon As shown, th'ese fingers are so disposed as to pierce the webbing longitudinally, and thus I avoid weakening'the structure of the webbing as far as possible. In order that this form of fastening may not be clumsy, fingers 9 and 10 are made triangular in shape, each finger being formed with alternately-arranged inclined sides 11, so that when the fingers are passed 7 through the webbin g and doubled backuponthestrip 8 the two fingers will lie in the same plane with their points overlapping, asshown in Fig; 6. -An indefinite length ofwebbing thus'formed is rolled in bundles likethat shown inFig. 3 audsold to merchants, who in turn sell the webbing to the consumerin such-lengths as the consumer may desire.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a modified form in which a Webbing 7 is provided with two series of strips 8 and 8, the strips of the two series being alternately arranged longitudinally of the webbing. In this form a sujli'icient length of webbing would be attached to the waist by stitching along the upper edge, the hooks of the undershirt engaging the lower series of strips, while hooks of; the enter Ice skirt would engage the upper series, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention- 7 1. As an article of manufacture, awebbing, ahook-receiving metallic strip 8, and two pairs of fingers 9 and 10 integral with the strip and having oppositely-inclined sides,

' which fingers are passed through the webbing teases 3. As an article of manufacture, a webbing of indefinite length having permanently secured thereto at equal distance apart throughout its length a series of hook-receiving strips which are straight in the direction of length of the webbing, each of said strips being secured t0 the Webbing by two pairs of fingers 1ocated,-respeotive1y, at opposite ends of the strip, which fingers are passed through the webbing in a manner to perforate the same longitudinally, and clenched upon the opposite side thereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Crowley, Louisiana, this 1st day of February, A. D. 1902.

CELIA A. SPURGIN. [[i. 3.]

Witnesses:

O. L. CRIPPEN,

H. A. SIEADNLAN, 

